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by George Warssell Canadian University Press

REGINA-People who advocate censorship usually have something to hide.

The board of governors of the Univer- sity of Saskatchewan is blackmailing the Regina campus student council into es- tablishing editorial control over the student newspaper, the Carillon-for the greater good of the university, of course.

It’s the most naked form of blackmail -the board has even issued press statements about it. Shut up the Carillon or we won’t collect student union fees. No student union fees, no student union.

According to the board’s press re- lease, the Carillon must be controlled because the paper “has pursued an editorial policy clearly aimed at under- mining confidence in the senate, board of governors and the administration of the university. ”

The board has shown no willingness to discuss whether or not the editorial policy is justified. Instead, a cloud of sup- plementary reasons for censorship of the Carillon have been tossed at the public, none of them substantiated.

tion directed against the university.

Administration principal W. A. Rid- dell says the Carillon must be censored to halt a groundswell of popular indigna-

Denies obscenity charge Riddell also claims the Carillon must

be censored because it’s “obscene”. He was quoted on the obscenity charge in the Regina Leader-Post, but he told this writer in a subsequent interview the charge was a “red herring”.

Riddell also says censorship must be established because the community is not contributing enough money to a 1 n- iversity fund drive.

No one is willing to discuss the possib- ility that the Carillon must be censored because it has been telling the truth.

Within a few miles of the Regina campus are the legislative buildings of the province of Saskatchewan and the offices of Liberal premier Ross Thatcher. For the Regina students, that means the government is one of their neighbors- not a very good one.

The history of the conflict between Ross Thatcher and the Regina campus spans a couple of years, culminating this October when 1,500 students marched to the legislature where they confronted Thatcher and Pierre Elliott Trudeau over the inadequacy of the student loan system in Saskatchewan.

matter publicly at all.

They got no adequate response-in fact Thatcher refused to discuss the

The Carillon and its editorial policy is at the ten ter of the crisis in Regina. The University of Saskatchewan board of governors is blackmailing the student union into censorship of the paper by revoking student fees.

REGINA (CUP)-Students at this University of Saskatchewan campus are calling for a written contract between their council and the board of governors for collection of compulsory student union fees.

Their demand came in a referendum Thursday as they voted 1101 to 539 for the proposal initia- ted a day earlier at a meeting of 2500 Regina students.

The meeting, which also cen- sured the board, was called to de- termine response to the governors’. December 31 announce-

ment that it would no longer collect council dues on council’s be- half.

In Thursday’s referendum the campus specified the written contract also contain a clause providing that the fees the board collects be turned over to the student council for disburse- ment at council’s discretion.

There has been some severe student criticism directed at the Carillon in the last week, but any changes in its operation will wait until the fight with the administration over student council autonomy has been settled.

Student loans have been one of the Carillon’s favorite topics during the last two years-especially since they broke a story last February, explaining how Allan Guy, currently minister of public works with the Thatcher government, had claimed and received a $1,000 student loan while drawing a salary in excess of $16,000. The story, under- standably, drew national interest.

It also drew intense local interest from Riddell, who attempted to stop the story from breaking by first trying to contact Carillon editor Don Kossick and then trying to get to the printer. Neither attempt worked.

Within, two weeks, the president of the Regina student council received a let- ter from Riddell, asking why the students union should be allowed to continue using the name of the university, and, significantly, why the university should continue to provide space on campus for the Carillon.

The answer to all three questions was presumably contained in a suggestion by Riddell that a “policy board” be created to direct editorial policy for the paper- exactly what is being “suggested” by the board now.

Kossick took the entire matter before a faculty committee on academic freedom. The chairman of the committee, Jim McRorie, now a sociology professor at Calgary, recalls the board’s threats faded after the committee began its hearings. The hearings were never com- pleted, and the committee never report- ed.

Even before uncovering the good for- tune of the minister of public works, the Carillon-in fact, the entire campus- had been deeply embroiled in the question of university autonomy.

When the government announced last year the formation of a “general university council” superceding and usurp- ing the powers of the Regina faculty council. the Caarillon joined the faculty in claiming university autonomy was threatened externally.

Fears at Regina deepened when That- cher announced later the same year the government would approve the univer-. sity budget section by section. rather than all at once-a procedure allowing direct political intervention in university affairs.

Riddell announced that the government had changed its mind regarding the second decision, but failed to convince the Carillon that the autonomy of the university was in any less danger. He also failed to convince Alwyn Ber- land, dean of arts and science. who re- signed last September.

Berland’s resignation statement cov- ered the front page of the Carillon. ex- pressing fears that Regina’s autonomy had been undermined by Thatcher’s actions of the year before.

The Carillon has not been so diploma- tic. It has implied that the administra-

tion has acted as apologist for the government, rather than face a renewal of interest by the government in the sep- arate sections of the university budget.

Claimed admin sellout Since Berland’s resignation, the Caril-

lon has gone even more deeply into the question. In October, the paper ex- amined the make-up of the University of Saskatchewan board and senate, which govern both Saskatchewan campuses, and pointed out the predom- inance of members residing in Saska- toon or holding degrees from the older campus. The implication was that the membership of both bodies had a great cleal to do with the respective alloca- tions to each campus. Nine members of the board are in the pay of the provincial government.

Riddell, meanwhile, launched an ex- tensive campaign against the poor showing of faculty and students at Regina in contributing to the “good image” of the university in the community. Com- munity reaction showed up, he said, in a poor response to a university capital fund drive.

The fund drive was necessary because the provincial government refused to allocate sufficient funds to the uninversity for capital expansion.

Riddell also accused faculty of contributing to the poor public image by not donating enough money to the United Fund.

On November 15, the next week, Riddell escalated the conflict by stating the Carillon might “adversely affect the university budget if it wasn’t clean- ed up.*’ He referred to the board’s threats against the student council of the previous year, and hinted darkly that ‘*the business office has to have some direction” before the second semester at Regina would begin.

Sure enough, 2:s the Carillon revealed in a special issue within the week, the budget was adversely affected-to the tune of $2 million. The paper rather unnecessarily pointed C?Ui that the provincial government set the final budget figures.

In view of that fact, the Carillon probably found it unnecessary to point out that the * ’ eommitni ty’ ’ Riddeli men- tioned must consist of the small cluster ol buildings forming the Saskatchewan legislative assembly.

The real question at Regina is a political one: the Carillon has displayed an unhealthy and positively unstudent-like

interest in exposing the provincial government’s unfairness to faculty and students alike, and the government will not allow it to continue.

In retrospect, the Carillon’s gravest “irresponsibility” probably lay in re- printing the election platform of the Thatcher government-a year after the election.

by Thomas J. Echvards Chevron staff

The narcs are coming, did you get it?

Saturday, December 28, they made one arrest in an ill- planned and poorly-carried-out raid on the house of a member of the university community.

Larry Kreuger, grad philosophy and a law-abiding respectable citi- zen, was enjoying an evening at home with a group of friends when the party was rudely in- terrupted by seven members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police narcotics squad.

They walked in uninvited and, without removing their boots or showing a warrant, proceeded to search several people in the house.

The head narc? complete with briefcase and pencil-line mustache, blurted out as he busted in, “Don’t anyone move, and you won’t

1 get hurt.” They herded everyone in the

house into the livingroom to exe- cute a search. They also turned off the house’s sound system.

The horsemen attempted to search every male in the house but were foiled by the wanderings and interminglings of the assem- bled host. A number of people were searched three or more times, while some were missed

ore switc Jack Gray, associate dean of

arts, deals with all the changes to the faculty.

“The majority of students who change are in first year,” he said.

More than 50 students have changed to the faculty of arts since September. This in about three times the number ;vho changed last year.

Gray conjectured the lack of departmental exams in grade 13 may be affecting situation. “It is easier for most students to get into university and social pres- sures push them into it. Some of these students drop out of the

completely by Canada’s finest. The girls were spared searching.

The people in the livingroom persevered in keeping the party going by singing Christmas carols and Jimmy Hendrix. One person went to get a guitar to provide some music, but as soon as he picked it up it was snatched from his hands by a narc and searched.

A bottle of aspirins and some nosedrops were confiscated from one inidividual who was told the items would be analyzed.

Another narc searched part of Kreuger’s gun collection by looking down the barrels from the lethal end.

Yet another horseman seized a bottle of vitamins from the refrigerator and frisked the family dog.

The house itself was searched only fleetingly.

The narcotics squad finally left with a lone captive who was charged with possession of mari- juana. They missed one individual who had swallowed a large lump of hash when the narcs came through the door. overtime on a Saturday night must be pretty high for the people of Canada to pay. One can only wonder whether the people feel it is worth the cost.

university or switch to arts because of its greater flexibility.”

“The arts students who are the most sure of their futures are the geography and planning students. The sticking rate is quite good there.”

Graduates in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering are invited to consider employment opportunities with the Public Service of Canada in the following fields:

CONSTRUCTION - Buildings, urine Works, Highways

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Mr. G.S.C. Smith, P. Eng., will be on campus to discuss engineering careers with you on the above dates. Arrange your appointment through the Placement Office today.

Associate dean of science Rob- ert Woolford commented on the increase in changes: “It might be that students who are accepted on their grade 13 Christmas mark stop working the rest of year and come here lacking motivation. They usually take a course in the subject they did best in high- school but maybe find that it is not what they expected or wanted.”

Teed - in at Peterborough strike The 23 members of the striking

Peterborough newspaper guild have again requested the support of Ontario university students for the picket-line at the strikebound Peterborough Ex- aminer. Today, students from Wa- terloo will leave the campus centre at 7:30 pm for Peterborough.

Buses, accomodation, and food have been provided by the striking guild. As the picket line is to be manned for three days buses will operate every day for

those who cannot, stay for the complete length of time. Anyone interested in going to Peterbor- ough but cannot leave Tuesday should cont.act the Chevron to find out the departure times of later buses.

And important difference of this stay in Peterborough will be the addition of a teach-in to be con- ducted for the students, local industrial workers and the striking journalists.

A venture in small group process through which one might be brought

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Notice of a GENERAL MEETING advehsed as January 20, 1969 in last Friday’s Chevron should read Wlonday, January 27 at 8:QQ pm in Room TO1 of the engineering lecture building.

This experience would be helpful to those who feel lonely and have trouble relating to others, as well as to those who wish to deepen relationships that are already relatively satisfactory. It will be presented by the counselling program of the psychology department in order to explore the ways in which the above may be most fully developed.

Group sessions will be held once a week for 1 l/2 hours for 10 weeks starting the week of Jan. 20,1969.

If you are ‘an undergraduate and would like to participate, please contact Miss Mary Purden at 744-61 ‘ll, extension 2746 (room 240 in the psychology de artment) by Jan. 17. Since we will be asking you (in the first and last session) to help us evaluate the effectiveness of this project, no fee will be involved.

A subscription fee included in their annual student fees entitles U cf W students to receive the Chevron by mail during off-campus terms. Non-students: $4 annually. Authorired ~a reeond-

class mail by the Post Office deportment, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Send address changes promptly to: rhe Chevron, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.

If you are: a) a regular student listed incorrectly in the fail/winter

directory b) a co-op or grad student who did not fill in his local

address i% phone no. at January registration Please complete a change of address card on or before Jan. 17.

The cards are availab,le at the Registrar% Office and the Board of Pubs office in the Campus Centre. Copies of the fall directory are still available at the Board of Pubs Office.

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-Dawe X. Stephenscn, the Chevron

Heavy snow on the roof- of the athletic building caused part of the building to coll~~ps~~ dlti.- ing the holidays *for no apparent reason, The architect said the collupse WLLS cirx IO ,/&i/t?* construction while the contractor blamed the disaster on poor design,

by Sydney Nestel Chevron staff

“Capitalism keeps the standard of living at just that level where labor can work”.

Thus says Andy VC’ernick a graduate in history and economics from Cambridge and pre- sently a Phd candidate in poli- sci at U of T. The lecture Labor and Capital was ’ the first of a series sponsored jointly by the radical student movement and the Arts Society.

About 300 people filled AL 11-6 Wednesday night. Wernick, who was coming up from Toronto, arrived at 8: 30 and immediately began to speak.

Wernick began by denouncing bourgeois social science as a “mystification of what is really going on. Social scientists are social police. ’ ’ They serve only to deceive people or recruit them into the mainstream of4he capitalist economy.

After having explained the difference between various leftist factions he went on to carefully analyse the nature of capitalist production. Production is the process whereby people apply labor to things in drder to produce things. In order for production to continue both the things and the labor must be reproduced.

In this context the problems of a capitalist productive system are twofold. First, there is a problem of what to do with surplus value (i.e. the value of goods in’excess of that needed to just feed the system).

Thus the wage good i.e. con- sumer product is capital since it served to keep labor productive. Capitalism keeps the standard of living just at the level where productivity is maximized.

The managers or owners have three possible choices. They can give themselves a bonus. They can invest it in profit-making ventures, and Wernick was care- ful to point out that profit does not always mean growth; or they can give it to the workers in higher wages. At any rate the decision is not with the mass of workers and is subject to the arbi- trary measures of the bourgoisie.

The second problem is of greater significance. It is the basic ethic of capitalism and flows directly

from the Marxist interpretation of economics.

“The rationality of capitalism is the rationality of accumulation; the relegation of people to mere labor-power, the subordination of labor power to accumulating capital.”

This means, that in terms of production, people are seen only as labor and labor is a commodity.

Wernick went on to elaborate by attacking the view that, since managers, not owners, now control production the present system is not capitalist. Even if this were so, it does not effect capitalism. The class struggle is not essential.

After a provocative question period Wernick summed up the problems of capitalism as three- fold :

“Capitalism is the exploitation

of labor by capital, not laborers by capitalists. ” @ allocation of surplus value for profit not need Q a person’s labor as a product rather than an expression of that person @ the need in advanced capitalism for technically-skilled people who can still be subordinated by the needs of capital.

It is this aspect of capitalism which is most evident at universities and which is causing much of the present campus unrest.

The Marxist lecture series con- tinues a week from tomorrow and the following four Wednesdays. Up coming topics are: class, imperial- ism. work and consumption, praxis, revolutionary culture.

All lectures are in AL 116 at 8*pm.

Involvement is the key to Way Out, currently being presented by the Student Christian Move- ment in the campus center. The conference began Sunday afternoon Bnd finishes tonight.

According to official registration literature, Way Out is an attempt to stimulate awareness and to come up with some sort

Moncton students

MONCTON (CUP)-About 150 University of Moncton students occupied their science building at midnight Saturday to support demands for $32 million from the federal government for the campus’ building program.

occupy building

Details were scarce, but students and faculty scheduled a meeting yesterday on the student demands.

IJniversity rector Adelard Sa- voie has called the science building the key to the campus.

“The whole university could be paralyzed -courses could be sus- pended: ’ ’ Savoie said of the oc- cupa tion .

The campus was the scene of a large-scale student strike last February, when classes were boy- cotted in a tuition fees fight

of strategy for achieving con- structive social change. The dis- cussions are approached from the standpoint of social and political theology.

The conference incorporates a series of “personal statements” by a number of resource people. These include David Lochhead, Aarne Siirala, and Walter Klaas- sen, Waterloo faculty members. Peter Warrian, current president of the Canadian Union of Stu- dents, and Cyril Levitt, Waterloo student radical, are also involved. Both will speak at length on the feasability and strategy of the new-left movement, although they admit straight answers are often difficult to give.

As well as people, films and tapes are available on demand. Among others Free fall, The Hat- terities, Of time, ‘work and lie- sure. Therefore chose 9ife and Bar mitzvah (eye witness No. 86/, are being shown in the campus center and are available for addi- tional showings.

Tonight at 7:30 the conference closes with Gregory Baum speak- ing on “Man’s changing self-under- standing” in *MC 2066. Admission is one dollar or the red registration ticket. Baum is currently a theology teacher .at St. Mich- ael’s College in Toronto

Tuesday, January 14, 796% (9:36/ 629 3

The C?.mnteurs De Paris are not giving a concert but a festival o,f merriment here Friday.

The University of Wat,erloo’s third offering in the Concert Hall series is the Varel and Bailly company Chanteur de Paris. These Singers Of Paris will be in the arts theater at 8:30 P.M. on Friday, January 17th.

Andre Varel and Charly Bailly are said to be the top song-writing duo in France and are com- ared to Rogers and Hammerstein. The company consists of seven young, witty, talented men under the direction of Bailly, who reminds one of Maurice Chevalier.

They are aware of what their audience wants. . . entertainment. They generate energy like human

dynamos and show a fantastic amount of vitality as they cavort across the stage with directness, smiles and rows of teeth, as if each smile was meant for each individual.

They do everything well. They sing, they dance, they do a bit of decorous clowning but sometimes when the lights go down, they grow serious and sing a sad little song in close harmony.

The group is versatile, with guitarist, saxaphonist, flutist and dancers and always the piano played particularily well by Bailly.

Tickets are $2.50, students $1.50 and are available in the Art’s Theater box office.

ueens, music and nivd ‘69

Winter Carnival ‘69, the ninth Supremes on Jan. 23. This will evening. Thursday will see the annual at Waterloo Lutheran Uni- be one of the finest college con- queen’ judging all day topped off ver si ty , will be 5 days this year certs ever on the Canadian scene. by the concert by Dina Ross and from Jan. 21 to Jan. 25, 1969. The Another exciting performer to the Supremes. Friday’s activities students have increased the size come to W.L.U. will be Don will be skiing at Chicopee Ski and activities so that it is now, Crawford, a versatile vocalist- Centre and the Miss Canadian Uni- truly, the second largest winter guitarist who will present infor- versity Queen Pageant. carnival in Canada, second only ma1 performances around the Saturday is another feature of C to the Quebec Winter Carnival. It campus during the full five days. Carnival ‘69. The daytime hours will also be tied in with the Kitch- The kick-off dance on Wed. Jan. will include a giant Klondike ener Winter Fest to be held at the 22 will feature Wilmer Alexander cookout, Autosport events, varied same time. Jr. and the Dukes and the Phase creative ice sculptures, and Klon-

This year, we will again host the dike Days games. In keeping with Miss Canadian University Queen III. The week will begin on Tues.

Jan. 21 with the queens arriving. the Klondike Days theme, the Pageant which has grown to in- Mardi Gras Ball at night will elude 33 queens representing A press conference will be held

from 1 to 5 that afternoon at the have Major Hoople’s Boarding every major university from each of the ten provinces of Skyline Hotel to meet the queens. House and the Bedtime Story

This will be followed by a civic for a rock dance, a jazz group Canada. A first this year will be nightclub and a special Klondike the live televising of this major

reception and a banquet at the Toronto-Dominion Centre. bar with dixieland music and a

event on CKCO-TV in Kitchener New Orleans bar and gaming on the evening of Jan. 24. Back on campus on Wednesday, room. We will welcome any press,

The entertainment will feature the queens will visit the city and radio or television people to join a concert by Diana Ross and the the Animal dance will fill the us for any or all events.

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January 20,1969

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by Graham George Saturday N ighi

What makes a good operatic libretto is a question long on fascination but short on answers. You can put down the plot of Trawata in three lines. Figaro might take a page. So neither simplicity nor complexity comes near the answer.

Nor does the poetic quality of the text-by the time the composer has finished mauling it for his own over- riding purposes. both rhyme and rhythm have under- gone far-reaching metamorphoses.

Dramatic action based on history presents particular problems, since it involves among other things a conflict I of lovalties. This is especially tue in the twent- ieth century. for we are a past-conscious generation. Shakespeare, even if he knew. didn’t care that his portrayal of the last Plantagenet king was based on Tudor propaganda. But we brain-washed products of the scientific-history era do care, and that caring does grievous bodily harm to dramatic necessities.

Take Riel. There is no one way of stating the case of Louis

Riel. French-Indian half-breed and religious visionary whose personal charm seems to have been compelling and who. before reaching the scaffold. became the leader of a provisional government in the North- West and the idol of the metis people. Some might think him no more than a rabble-rouser who lost the game and paid the traditional forfeit. Others consider Sir John A. Macdonald the villain of the piece. Riel the hero. And between these two extremes lie all kinds of mixed feeling.

Thus it’s no valid criticism of an operatic libretto based on his strange story to say that it plays tricks with history: that much the dramatist must do. No. criticism must base its argument on whether the tricks played have served drainatic purpose, and whether,

because of the tricks or along with them, the necessary explosion has taken place.

The Mavor Moore-Jacques Languirand libretto for the Canadian Opera Company’s RieI-the newest and shiniest manifestation of that rare thing, a Canadian opera-stays close enough to history that no one need cavil. But it spoils everything by two weaknesses that are all the more annoying in that they were foreseeable.

First, no dramatic tension develops because we are engaged, not in a development of any kind, but in the ]presentation of a. series of historical tableaux.

(The book reads better than it plays. But that’s because when we read a play we make our own stage action whereas when the stage is before our eyes we are tied down to what we see there and are entitled to demand that the playwright do at least as well as we could do alone. )

Secondly, no characters develop either. Riel’s mother comes off best of all. Riel himself is next best-as well he might, given his tumultuous life. But the extras- the Prime Minister of Canada, Sir George Etienne Car-tier, Bishop Tache of St. Boniface-have each in their own way an excruciating time.

Cartier perhaps undergoes least torture, since he comes out as a vacancy-a strange situation in which to find Sir John A. Macdonald’s right-hand man, the man who, according to Professor Wrong. distinguished himself in the rebellion of 1837. took a prominent part in the negotiations for Confederation, negotiated the surrender of the Hudson’s Bay Com- pany’s rights in the North-West, and carried through parliament the bill creating the province of Manitoba.

But what happened to Cartier in this libretto is nothing to the sabotage of Sir John himself. Has it ever occurred to anyone that the first prime minister of Canada was an essentially trivial character whose

only concern in life was the art of manipulation fog its own sake? Not to me. Is this version of Macdonald then to be chalked up to librettist’sm licence? Only if the intention was to present Riel’s death as a mean- ’ ingless event in an insane comedy.

The result is that Macdonald’s only human statement during the whole of the opera-“You think I want to hang this man. the worthiest adversary I’ve had‘?“- seems totally out of place. And his most callow joke- “Touche. Ta&e”-becomes all too congruous with the character portrayed.

Harry Somers’ music for Riel also disappoints me. i was greatly impressed with the stark. always rele-

vant dissonance of his louse of Atreus and I thought that in Somers we might have in our own country a composer capable of the most exact ex- pressive representation. His Riel is not of this sort.

It seems to me that the weaknesses of his score are twofold. First, he takes refuge again in the reiterated dissonances which were so true to the tragic inevit- ability of Atreus and are so false to the historic drama of the metis rising. Secondly. his foil for these drastic harmonic proceedings consists of ingeniou- often delectable-counterpoint. confided to the brass- to those instruments. in other words. that have extreme difficulty in playing softly. The result is that man!. potentially interesting conversations on the stage

are. as it were, buried at the public cost. Am I saying. all in all, that Riet as concelL.ed b\-

Moore and Somers was a mistake and a waste ot money? By no means. Is an opera less important to a nation than a supersnic. air-to-air. missile-carrying fighter aircraf t’l It’s a great deal less expensive. But what operas and missiles have in common is that you are unlikely to get a good one without giving the makers a chance to make some bad ones first.

Riel is far from bad. But. to be frank. it is also far from good.

by Sharon Brown Saturday Night

I don’t care what you call them- Today People, Now People, post- hippies, sub-Flower Power, any of those coy, corny group names- they’re in the process of creating their own Canadian hero. And he’s, thankfully, different from any other hero. He’s beautiful. for one thing, and he projects himself in a very intimate way, not as if he’s stuck on a ridiculous pedestal like the heroes out of our history testbooks. Fle speaks to the under 25 gene!,ation, the one that doesn’t feel much con- nection with the regular plastic world. And his name i:, Leonard Cohen.

And he’s made his own singing appearances at the best folk festivals ( Mariposa. Newport) and on the super campuses (UCLA, York), and cut his own album on the Columbia label.

Leonard has always known he was reaching someone with his poems and novels and songs, but at first he misread the g;.oup who were ready to follow him When he published crowers FQ~. Hitler,

he said “Put it in the hands of my generation and it will be recogni- zed.” He missed by ten years. He was 25 than. 33 now. but it isn’t his own age group who are doing the recognizing ; it’s the people in their late teens and early twen- ties. It was them, plus a few Flower People, who made a god out of Bob Dylan. Now they’re with Leonard.

But those things have nothing to do with real heroism. Maybe the best way to explain something of Leonard Cohen’s appeal is to com- pare him with Dylan, the only man today who can stand beside Leonard. For starters, Cohen doesn’t come on nearly as strong as Dylan-he’s more subtle and knows more about myth. In a song like Leonard’s Dress Re-

hearsal Rag, which drops a long way into despair, he still manages a tender littler love-and-berry- picking scene that saves the song from the absolute brink of hope- lessness you find in a comparable IDylan song. say Desolation

Row.

These days he’s surrounded by all the showbiz, lionize-the- next-big-name trappings of the contemporary hero. Naturally, ‘Harper’s Bazaar, McCall’s and Vogue have swooned all over him (“this spare Canadian,” Vogue called him). He appeared briefly singing in Don Owen’s

Cohen is more personal than Dylan. When Dylan1 talks about himself, you feel he’s not, really there. not as a prson. But Leo- nard is always in his songs. He’s gentle and he’s intimate, and it’s finally his intimacy that reaches us. He creates a private world, and, inside that world, he sings about the things that really matter : how it is to be alive right now. What is most real for Leonard is himself; if there’s a hell, it isn’t something that is “others.” And he blames nothing else and no one else for his personal hangups: “/t’s not

the electric light, my friend, It is

your vision . that is dim. I’ Which is how it is for all of us.

Leonard Cohen: Novlist, poet, singer and, if you are under 25, hero.

It’s altogether typical and right latest fashionable movie, The Er- that Leonard’s talent isn’t some- singing, which is often simply secrets. And you can share them, ignored, and it says: *‘Please

nie Game, and everybody you thing big, not like earlier folk a momotone; not with his guitar if you’re able, if you’re looking understand I never had a secret

can think of has recorded his singers-or, for that matter, work, which is uncomplicated in around for someone to tune chart/ to get me to the heart of

songs, from Judy Collins and Noel like earlier pop heroes. Leonard the extreme. No, Leonard con- into, in a song of Leonard’s like this/ or any other matter/ when he

Harrison and Chad Mitchell to connects all right, but not with nects with a presence, with a The Stranger. It has a vague talks like that you don’t know what

Spanky & Our Gang and The Other his voice, which isn’t especially haunting poetic presence. sort of tune that runs on like a he’s after/ when he speaks like this

Day and Vivaldi’s Green Jacket. strong; not with the style of his What Leonard calls it is sharing light rain, barely noticed, barely you don’t know what he’s after. I’

Juesda y, January 14, 1969 (9:36) 63 1 5

Screen productions of Shakes- peare are generally lousy. The attempt simply to make a movie of one of the plays loses the inti- nnate and dramatic effect of the players’ presence on stage. Simi- larly, the attempt to capture the &aract.erizations of the actors also fails because the dramatic :echniques which Shakespa re used are effective only on stage, ;!ot in the cool medium of i.he t:inen-a.

Frances Zeffirelli has made 3 inotion picture which is valuable not as a good production of Shakespeare but as a good movie.

It is characteristic of Zeffirel- h’s R(J~~N am.! ~sr/itct that it sacrifices much of the intellectual- ly appealing counterplay and poetic nature of the verse to make the movie more emotionally involving for what is not, a.fter

The Shoes of the Fishes-mm is a bad movie.

It does not approach the character portraits of the book by Mor- ris L. West. The make-up borders on grotesque, lighting is sinister and there are few instances of imaginative camera work. The only noteworthy acting is that of Oskar VVerner as the young priest silenced by the censorship of the church, and Veittorio Desica as the againg cardinal who knows more than the pope about the church and its workings.

But Anthony Quinn, as the pope, cannot really be blamed for his mediocre showing; all his part consisted in was looking wise but puzzled.

The movie is a flurry of pagentry, ceremony and the out- dated internal showmanship of the Vatican. It is continually throwing hunks of 6 footage on the scenic -wonders of Rome and Saint Peter’s -the same scenic wonders.

The opening scene is a prison camp in Siberia. The prisoners are mining an open pit, and we are given the impression, by vast stretches of landscape and five feet of snow, that it is rather cold. The prisoners are not having a fun time. American pro- poganda.

all, an audience of English scholars. Some of the wit corn-

bats between Mercutio, Renvolio and Romrso would on the screen signal popcorn time to most of the audience.

But the film does not lose in the transcription. Rather. it becomes a movie, making good IW~ of canlera techniques. vis- ual effects and ?,he freedom of move;rienr. possible in this n-red- i Lf lidl 1

ofle of ihe most refreshing uses of this freedom is in the balcony scene, in which R,omeo is not confined to gazing longingly at Jtlliet, while uttering almost sickiningly-sweet phrases but is an exhuberant, joyful boy who can hardly contain himself with excitment.

Most changes from the play,

One prisoner is called to the office and from the thundering music and staring looks at the mention of his number (no names in Siberian prison camps) we know that this man is what the movie is about.

Flash-and we are in Rome where sorne cardinal is telling an American newscaster that he has a story. Completly unrelated, as is a whole subplot which gradually evolves around this American, his estranged wife and his mistress whom he meets at the zoo.

Flash-and we are in the office of Kamenev, the premier of the Soviet Union. He is talking to our friend from the prison camp, re- miniscing about their long hatred of each other and telling him that he is free to leave the country, but not telling him why. (“Aha” shouts the viewer, with perceptive insight. “Here is the beginning of a mystery.” But he is soon disappointed, for we never do find out why he was released. )

Our friend, it turns out, is a bishop by the name of Kiril Lakota and he has been in the prison camp for twenty years.

He now journeys to Rome and we are treated to our first of

although perhaps disturbing to the Shakespearena scholar, make the film more convincing. The apothecary, for example, is not in the movie because his grotesque and evil nature, foreboding tragedy. is a dramatic technique for the stage, not for the inore realist ic medium of the scfreen.

But in a few instances Zeffirel- li weakened the action by chan?g- ing or leaving out integral parts of the play. The end+r~~ on the .a & crowded steps of the prince’s palace was less effective than in the bleakness of the Bovers’ tomb. And the absence of some of the many short scenes near the end of the play at times made the action d.isjointed.

Nevertheless, the movie is effective-effective not as a true ren- dering of Shakespeare, but as a good motion picture.

many views of the beautiful city. Here, Lakota has an audience

with the pope and is instantly made cardinal.

Shortly, the pope dies and it is obvious to the audience that Kiril cardinal Lakota is to be the next pope. Obvious to the audience perhaps, and obvious to Morris West when he wrote the book, but not to the director of the movie, for he manages to make this action take half of the three hours left.

Once he is pope, Lakota pro- ceeds with friendly negotiations with his old arch-enemy, Kamenev to help save the world from a nuclear war.

It soon becomes obvious to the audience again what the course of the next hour’s action is to be.

In his coronation speech, the pope, benevolent and magnani- mous, but nevertheless with a heavy heart, declares all the church riches donated to the people of China who are starving and who threaten to start a war by moving out from their borders to feed themselves.

“Applause” goes the dubbed-in crowd ; “sob” go the cardinals who are losing all their wealth, “thank god” goes the audience- for the movie is finally over.

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Young men by any means losing the love of learning, when by time they come to their own rule, they carry commonly from the school with them a perpetual hatred of their master and a continual contempt of learning. If ten gentlemen be asked why they forget so soon in court that which they were learning so long in school, eight of them will lay the fault on their il l handling by their school- masters.

R oger Ascha m,

The Schsolmaster (I 57Q)

Every rebel, solely by the movement that sets him in opposition IO the oppressor, therefore pleads for life, undertakes to struggle against servitude, falsehood, and terror , and affirms, in a flash, that these three afflictions are the cause of silence between men, that they obscure them from one another and prevent them from rediscov- ering themselves in the only value that can save them from nihilism-the long complicity of men at grips with their destiny.

Albert Camus,

The Rebel

SWING SONG Here I go up in my swing

Ever so high. I am the King of the fields, and the King

Of the town. I am the King of the earth, and the King

of the sky. Here I go up in my swing. . .

Now I go down.

A.A. Mike

‘Twas ever thus. In each generation, the staid adults be- lieve the young have lost respect, ideals and goals. In an Egyptian tomb, a stone was deciphered on which some pious old man of the Nile bemoaned-yes! this was 5000 years ago--the waywardness of the young nihilists of his day. Youth, he wailed, was going to the dogs!

All the more reason for us to endeavor to understand the young, not to raise our hands in horror, nor to cry that the new generation is degenerate.

AS. Neil!, Freedom

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Assume man as man, and his relation to the world as a human one, and you can exchange love only for love, confidence for confidence, etc. If you wish to enjoy art, you must be an artistically trained person; if you wish to have influence on other people, you must be a person who has a really stimulating and furthering influence on other people.

Every one of your relationships to man and to nature

must be a definite expression of your real, individual life corresponding to the object of your will. If you love without calling forth love, that is, if your love as such does not produce love, if by means of an expression of life as a loving person you do not make of yourself a loved person, then your love is impotent, a misfortune.

Karl Marx,

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The demise last week of the council on student affairs raises questions on both the value of such nebulous advisory bodies and the sincerity of the administration in dangling this type of proper channel communication before students.

The council existed for almost a year without ever meeting. An advisory body to the provost with about a third student representation, it was to deal with such matters as off-campus housing, residences, foreign students, health services, counselling, dis- cipline and the campus center.

In the case of the foreign- student advisor’s attitudes, the administration wished to cover up and deny rather than investigate. A committee was proposed only to look into the structure of the office in question rather than the personalities involved. The committee never met.

With the campus center, the administration wished to deal with the matter quickly and with para-military decision control so the forum of the student-affairs council was too cumbersome.

anti-foreigner attitudes, and the B other involved control campus center. _

There was no lack of problems in these areas during the period of existence of this L council. In fact, there were two near-crisis. One involved allegations of the foreign student advisor holding

Advisory committees are useless. They serve only as an appeasement and as a shield for the real decision making process.

The disturbing thing is the apparent ease with which the admin-

channels and can so easily ignbre istration flaunts the use of proper

them.

With the proper channel of the As long as students play by the student-affairs council available, administrations rules they can why wasn’t it used? never win.

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Nominations close tomorrow for that month-long extravaganza-election ‘69, and don’t think we’re looking forward to politics, propaganda, promises and the occassional compromise. Looking backward at this week’s Tuesday team: Jim Bowman, circulation manager; Mike Eagen, assistant news editor; Rod Hickman, entertainment coordinator; Kevin Peterson, left out last Friday bureau George Russell, part of our nationwide news service; Sydney Nestel, Dave Blaney, Jane Schneider, Jim Allen, Glenn Pierce, Brian Van Rooyen, Ann Stiles, Wayne Bradley, Dave X Stephenson, Dave Thomson, Gail Roberts, Brenda Wilson, Jim Detenbeck, Ron Bohaychuk, Carol Lenin, Fred, the masthead editor disclaims all responsibility for last Friday’s effort, and if you think Tuesday papers are fun-see if there’s one three weeks f ram now.

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By Kevin Peterson Canadian University Press

OTTAWA--Take 59 university presi- lents who want a national organization .O “speak for Canadian universities”. Add $1.75 for each Canadian university ;tudent.

With that, rent two floors of office space, buy the services of scores of aca- demics and secretaries, hold an annual general meeting, write a lot of letters, and sponsor a bunch of studies about higher education.

The result is called the Association of Jniversities and Colleges of Canada, AUCC) the academic equivalent of

‘erving baked beans in a fondue pot. The rappings are pleasant, the rhetoric ounds convincing ; but investigation hows the fare to be plain and conducive

,o bureaucratic belches.

Communications breakdown?

First, the rhetoric. Geoffrey Andrew, AUCC executive director, explains how the association came to exist and develop: “Any society strung along 5,000 miles of geography, divided into 10 political divisions and five regions, with two major languages, has a basic problem of communication.

“The universities came together to exchange information and views as Canadian universities with different problems from universities of other countries.

“After about 40 years of exchanging views they decided they needed a sec- retariat to study these problems and to make representations to government based on studies and not opinion.”

Andrew’s talk of “thought”, “change” and “study” occurs again in the themes of AUCC conferences-this year’s was -“The Nature of the Contemporary University”-and some of the research

AUCC watches over, such as the Duff- Berdahl report on university government.

But the contents of the rhetorical fondue pot are pretty stale. Member- ship in AUCC is open to any institution with degree-granting powers and over 200 students. Of 61 Canadian institu- tions eligible for membership, only two, College Ste. Anne in New Brunswick and Christ the King seminary in Brit- ish Columbia, aren’t members. The $1.75 per student levy provides AUCC with an annual operating budget of over $400.000.

A five-piece pie

What is the money used for? It sup- ports five divisions of AUCC staff, each with its own responsibilities:

The domestic programs division engages mainly in membership matters, examining the credentials of new insti- tutions applying for membership and so on. The division also convenes meet- ings of various associations, such as The Association of Canadian Medical Coll- eges, which are affiliated with AUCC. The domestic programs division is also responsible for such things as the placing of Czechoslovakian refugees in Canadian universities.

The international programs division handles liaison with groups such as Canadian University Students Overseas and UNESCO. It examines, for example, how Canada can be most effective in aiding foreign students and universities. The staff is responsible for Canadian representation at international conferences on various aspects of higher education.

The awards division handles scholar- ships and fellowships established by in- dustry and governments and given to AUCC to administer. In 1968 the division handled over 50 programs involving more than $3 million. Awards has the big- gest staff and handles more bureaucratic work than any other AUCC has the big-

gest staff and handles more bureaucratic work than any other AUCC division, answering over 6,000 letters last year.

The research division looks after AUCC interests in various studies of higher education which the association is involved in-studies such as the relations between universities and government, accessibility to higher education and so on.

The information division is responsible for AUCC publications such as Un- iversity Affairs, a monthly bulletin, and various tracts of information on Canadian universities. The division also handles press relations for AUCC and is responsible for the association’s library.

A quick look at the five divisions shows that only research, the smallest of the five, is concerned with such things as “change” in Canadian universities. The other four are engaged in writing letters, “administering” and perpetua- ting bureaucracy.

AUCC officials are quick to point out that one reason for the immense bureaucracy is the lack of a federal office of higher education. Until an office is created? AUCC inherits by default such things as administering awards programs, answering letters, and looking after foreign students. e

“Studies” ad infinitum

It seems axiomatic that before change can occur in Canadian universities “studies” must be done on questions and concepts. The cost of studies on such things as student aid, university government or university costs is prohibi- tive, however. unless they are foundation or government financed.

In recent history, AUCC has been a sponsor or co-sponsor of every major study concerning Canadian higher education-Duff-Berdahl, the Bladen commission, commission on relations between universities and goveriimcnt. and SO on. It is conceivable that no study of a question in Canadian higher educa-

tion can be done without AUCC involvement-a most powerful position for any group to be told.

Both Andrew and AUCC research director D.G. Fish deny this situation exists, although Andrew says: “I would like to see AUCC in that position-of being involved in all studies of higher education-because it represents more and more, the total university community. ”

The danger of having all studies done through AUCC can be seen in examining those now in progress. which Fish says are fairly typical. The five now being done are: university-government relations, costs of university programs and departments, student housing. accessibility to higher education, and how Canadian resources may best be used in aiding foreign universities.

As CCS field worker Ted Richmond puts it, “The studies are hardly concerned with basic questions of Canadian universities-the questions which both students and faculty very much want answered. AUCC seems interested only in toying with the present situation.”

But Andrew claims the Duff-Berdahl report started initiating change in Can- adian universities.

“This antedated the student protest movement”, he adds. “I’d be very happy to put our record of concern and productivity up for examination to anyone-in our studies, publications and conferences. ”

Students at the University of Western Ontario decided to do just that recently. They intend to investigate what AUCC does and how it spends the $1.75 per student it receives.

If the association does “represent, more and more, the total university community”. as Andrew says it does, maybe a few more students should follow LJWO’s lead and find out just what is happening.

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